granarium

Latin

Etymology

From grānum (“grain”) +‎ -ārium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡraːˈnaː.ri.um/, [ɡräːˈnäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡraˈna.ri.um/, [ɡräˈnäːrium]

Noun

grānārium n (genitive grānāriī or grānārī); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) granary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	grānārium	grānāria
Genitive	grānāriī grānārī1	grānāriōrum
Dative	grānāriō	grānāriīs
Accusative	grānārium	grānāria
Ablative	grānāriō	grānāriīs
Vocative	grānārium	grānāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Catalan: graner
• English: granary, garner
• French: grenier
• Friulian: granâr
• Galician: grandeiro
• Italian: granaio

• Occitan: granièr
• Old French: guernier, grenier
• Romanian: grânar
• Spanish: granero

References

• “granarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• granarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• granarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.